A substantial porter that will be ready to drink for my wife's (it ends in a "0") birthday. She wanted it chocolatey.

I don't think I've ever brewed the same beer twice in recent years - this is about as close as I get though - there's always a new hop I find & have to try out or a tweak to the last recipe to expe

I had a clear out of the brewing cupboard & made a dark, low hopped beer that I think my Missus will like;

Mash - 1 hr at 67°c

1.78 Kg pale malt

MK Beer festival clashed with Birmingham Beer Festival / MN's stag,
so I made my regular excursion yesterday for their first night

There is an increasing market for greener things; locally reared meat; locally grown veg & a frown upon spring onions flown in from Mexico when they can be grown here.   Of course mar

The link above takes you to the webpages of The Guardian, where they review 10 British brewpubs (well at least one is a brewery tap, not a brewpub).   Amazingly for the British media they

My coffee stout brewed earlier in the year was the best thing I have ever brewed & went down well with my drinking friends.

Saturday morning saw us all fresh & ready to go on a full day's drinking around Cambridge.   After a big breakfast in the hotel we (Al, Andrew, Matt, Mark, Asun & me) walked towar